Milestone Close to No 53 is a Grade II listed building in the Swindon local planning authority area, England. Milestone.
Milestone Close to No 53
- WRENN ID
- half-hinge-summer
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swindon
- Constituency
- East Wiltshire MP: Danny Kruger (RUK)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Milestone
- Address
- Milestone Close to No 53, Moormead Road, Wroughton
- OS grid reference
- SU 148 809
- Coordinates
- 51.52757, -1.7874
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
This milestone, located close to No. 53 on Moormead Road in Wroughton, is possibly from the 18th century but more likely from the 19th century. It is made of roughly facetted stone, and the incised directions have become obscured over time. The milestone is painted with the distances: "To Swindon 1 mile. To Devizes 18 miles."
Local climate
Milestone Close to No 53 receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 58% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 54% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 39 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2013
- No related consent applications matched
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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